Tag: symbolic portraiture
Feb
05
She Was Five Years Old When Museum Became The Only Place She Could Hide I Olga Hiiva
Olga Hiiva paints the faces that were never allowed to remain. Working on tablecloths, nightgowns, and worn domestic fabrics, she restores presence to lives erased by violence and silence. Her portraits are not memorials of suffering, they are acts of return, carrying grief, love, and survival across generations, and insisting that what was meant to vanish is still here.